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Using RapidWeaver to Generate Help Files for iPhone App

I’m no HTML guru. I can read it and, with great labor, write it. Since I use RapidWeaver for all of my websites, I decided to see if I could use RapidWeaver to create the help files on the iPhone app.

Here I describe my process for doing this.
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Disabling Zoom in UIWebView

In an earlier post, I discussed various behavior differences of different document types within UIWebView. One of the uglier aspects of UIWebView is the extra margin that can appear in RTF or HTML pages after you’ve zoomed and then rotate the device.

Turns out that Apple has some iPhone specific META tags that can disable the zoom.
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UIWebView Document Behavior Differences

I was trying to decide what document format to use for my help and about app panels. UIWebView is the obvious view of choice to use. UIWebView will display many different document formats, but I considered using 4 different possibilities: PDF, Pages, RTFD, and HTML.

Each document format behaves differently within UIWebView. Below is a summary of some of those differences.
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Automatically converting and bundling audio files for iPhone app

If you’re working with sound sources that are not iPhone optimized, you can set up a custom XCode build rule to convert them and install them for your iPhone application.
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iPhone Development

My previous passion has reared its ugly head, and I’ve been seduced into writing at least one application for the IPhone / iPod Touch. Read More...